(October 30, 1944)

The British were worried about the expectation that they would be responsible for a large share of the refugees and were especially concerned about the possibility that they may want to go to Palestine, where the British mandatory authorities were trying to control Jewish immigration to appease the Arabs.

The memo says that Britain accepted more than 50,000 Jewish refugees into Palestine between April 1, 1939, and March 31, 1944.